24 European Urology Today August/September 2009
The exam in Athens was led by Professor G. Alivizatos, chairman of the EBU Examination Committee. He personally presented the FEBU Diplomas. The pictures on these pages give an impression of the atmosphere in Athens.
AustriaBernhard AignerAndrea GnadManuela GruberJürgen HaasChristian HasenzagelStephan HrubyErik Randall HuberNicolai Jost LeonhartsbergerMartin MarszalekNike MorakisWerner SchoberRoman SzlauerAndrea Ulreich-Winterholer
BahrainNader Mohamed Awad Ahmed AwadMohamed Abdulla Mohamed Ebrahim
BelgiumGeert De Naeyer
CanadaPeter Boström
Czech RepublicMatúš Chocholatý
DenmarkGhayyath Hamed Jawid AtimashSalahadin Hassan Lamy
EgyptMahmoud Abdel HakimMohammed Abdou Abdel-RassoulAhmad Abulfotooh EidHany Mohamed Hamed Aly El FayoumyOmar Farid ElgebalyMohamed EmamAhmed GhaziRami Labib KamelWael Saber Afifi KandeelAhmed Mohamed Shaban MahrousAhmed Hussein MeabedOsama MotawaeAhmed Ismail ShoukryAhmed Yousef
FranceAyman AwadElias El KhouryBernard FarajMarwan SandidNajdat Yaghi
2009 FEBU Oral Examination - passing rate at 94%Well organised exams in three European cities
The 17th edition of the FEBU oral examination took place on Saturday 6 June 2009 in Athens, Budapest and Warsaw. Of the 262 examinees that participated, 247 were successful and received the FEBU Diploma. The average score of the total group was 7.7. This examination is part of the national exit exam for urologists in Hungary and Poland and is officially organised under the auspices of the the national urological societies in collaboration with the EBU Examination Committee.
The following urologists were granted the FEBU title after passing the oral examinations in June 2009.
$ Prof. Scarpa, one of the
Italian examiners, with some
successful Italian candidates
$ Prof. Alivizatos
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Al-Mashhadani from Iraq
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GermanyFaris Al-BadranSaddam Hussien Humoud AldemourAdel Farah Mufadi AlrabadiDaniel BaumunkThomas BschleipferThomas BuntenbroichEike Eichelberg-CurrlinFelix EngelhardtTom FischerAlexander GabuevCornelius Geil-BierschenkMarcus GoppeltChristian GratzkeGert HeineStefan HinzPatrick HoneckFlorian ImkampAlexander KarlAndreas Johannes LöserSimone MaasBernd MeisenzahlNasreldin Mohammed RamadanDaniel Porres KnoblauchSebastian Karl-Heinz SchäfersMichael SchulzeThomas SokolHossein TezvalDaniel Claudius VerghoChristoph Von KlotCarsten WachGunnar Wendt-Nordahl
GreeceStefanos AdamisVasileios AdamopoulosGeorgios DimitriadisGeorgios GeravelisKonstantinos IoannidisApostolos KafetsoulisStavros KazantzidisGeorgios KoutalellisEvangelos MazarisVaios PapadimitriouIoannis PapaioannouProdromos PhilippouOrestis PorfyrisCharalampos Thamnopoulos
HungaryZsolt DomjánGyula DrabikPéter JáromiTamás JózsaBéla KovácsTamás Kozma-BognárBassel MansourIldikó MeszlényiSeeyed Javad Mousavi NafchiIstván SüleczAndrás SzathmáriKinga SzücsPéter TóthTamás Zóber
It’s a pleasant Sunday morning in Athens and the temperature is approaching 30˚C. I’m sipping a Mythos beer in the shade of an umbrella whilst taking in the view of the Acropolis, satisfied with the new award - Fellow of the European board of urology (FEBU). Not bad considering less than 48 hours ago I was leaving the rainy shores of England.
So what madness drove me to sit yet more exams? I had always been impressed with the EAU’s approach to trainees and as a junior member I had enrolled on the European Residents Education Programme (EUREP) in Prague. This is essentially a revision course with the option for final year trainees to sit the EBU MCQ paper at the end of the week. Those who pass the exam can proceed to sit the EBU oral exam held at a later date. On the course I met several UK trainees who were using the week to prepare for the UK FRCS urology exam. This seemed a sensible strategy to sit both the European and English exams in quick succession whilst being at your most knowledgeable.
I eventually sat the EBU written exam in London in November 2008 along with 17 other hopeful candidates. In total, 227 trainees across Europe took the exam at several venues. The paper consisted of 150 MCQ’s, which had to be completed within 2 ½ hours. The paper was very fair with the questions being mainly clinically orientated and applicable to UK practice.
“So book your exam, make a long weekend break and embrace the opportunities of a European market!”
Two weeks later I was notified that I had passed the exam and was provided with a breakdown of marks for each urology sub-speciality. This latter feature was helpful in directing subsequent revision for the FRCS urology written paper that was conveniently held six weeks later, which I also passed. So far so good...
Next up were the oral examinations with the FRCS in May and the EBU equivalent in June. The FRCS viva involved answering questions on 16 different scenarios testing all of the urology sub-specialities. Although re-energised by the relief of passing the FRCS vivas, I did question the logic of rushing off two weeks later to sit another viva abroad.
However, on landing in Athens on a Friday night with the warm breeze that greets you on arrival, the ordeal
becomes more like an adventure. The vivas were held on the Saturday in a hotel not far from the city centre. Unlike the endless vivas for the FRCS, the EBU oral consists of three structured scenarios lasting just under an hour. My first viva covered paediatrics, the next penile cancer, with the final clinical based problem beginning with a BPH scenario which took a cheeky change in direction, turning into the management of bladder cancer.
The examiners were very friendly and encouraging throughout but expected knowledge to be backed up with reference to the 2009 EAU guidelines. Once the vivas are finished, the award ceremony was held later on that evening. The names of those who have passed are called out and the FEBU diploma is awarded to the applause of the other trainees. Very few people fail outright, with borderline candidates getting another opportunity to sit a pass fail viva that evening.My overall impression of the EBU exam is a very positive one. It’s reasonably priced, well organised with sensible, and clinically based questions giving trainees from all over Europe the chance to test their clinical abilities. To date, 188 urologists in the UK have passed the diploma – the total stands at 2617. Although FEBU is not currently recognised as a formal qualification, the number of UK trainees sitting the exam is likely to continue to rise.
So book your exam, make a long weekend break and embrace the opportunities of a European market. Who knows, that job in Tuscany is just round the corner!
The future is bright - the future is European!EBU Exam: a UK trainee’s experience
Mr. David PayneLeicester General HospitalUrology deptLeicester (UK)
European Board of Urology (EBU)
IndiaRamesh KamalakannanCherukareth Saifuddin SaheedSudhir Sukumar
IranHamidreza AbdiMohammad IzadpanahiMeysam JamshidiParham Masoudi
IraqAusama Saadi AbdulmuhsinIsmaeel Hama Ameen AghawaysHayder Al-ArdiYousuf Al-HallaqUla Al-KawazFiras Al-MashhadaniAmmar Aziz Mohammed Ali HasanSarwar Noori MahmoodEhab MohammadOthman MohammadAsim Suhail
ItalyFrancesco BeniaminLucas BernerMarco CosentinoMario GardiFabrizio LongoMichele PotenzoniMichele SalvettiNazareno Roberto SuardiAndrea Volpe
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$ Dr. Th. Bschleipfer from
Germany receives his diploma
% Some Middle Eastern
FEBU’s (left to right):
Drs. M.K. Alhalawany, H.M.M.
Abou Hashim, M.M.A. Emam,
M.A. Habous, A. Ghazi
% Happy FEBU’s from
Germany (left to right):
Drs. C. Gratzke, E. Eichelberg,
S. Maas, D. Porres Knoblauch,
D. Baumunk
% FEBU’s from South East
Asia (left to right): Drs. C.H
Ong, S.Y.Y. Woo, L. Boon
Cheok, C. Teo Chang Peng
% Dr. F. Beniamin from Italy is
congratulated by Prof.
Alivizatos
$ Dr. M. Arzoz Fabregas from
Spain was one of the
succesful candidates
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JordanOmar Yousef Ibrahim Al-AmirFaris Sabri Said AzzouniMohammed Abdulrazzaq Ali Hamandi
KuwaitAdel Wahba
LebanonWalid FalouPierre Sarkis
MalaysiaLee Boon CheokMohamed Ashraf Mohamed DaudSusan Yoke Yin Woo
The NetherlandsTan Quoc Trung TongHarm Van Melick
PakistanAziz Ur Rahman
PolandMichal BryczkowskiEwa CzapkowiczMarcin DluzynskiBartosz DybowskiPiotr FrackiewiczTomasz GadomskiWojciech GlazarAndrzej GolubinskiGerard GrotthussPawel JalmuznaRafał JedynakPiotr KalinowskiPiotr KaniaBeata Karwowska-BordzioPawel KieresAndrzej KierstanMaciej KisielNorbert KopecMichal KrawczynskiStanislaw Kwarcinski
Dariusz KwiatkowskiDaniel LewczakAndrzej LewickiBartosz MalkiewiczJaroslaw MarszalekLeszek MichalskiBartosz MisterekJarosław MozdzynskiDavid MusielakWojciech NarozanskiRobert NowakowskiMilosz OlczykDariusz OstapowskiGrzegorz PiotrowiczPiotr SatlawskiGrzegorz SulimkaRafal SwiecickiSławomir SzczygielMariusz SzewczykMichal TrabkaRafal WalczakMaciej WoronieckiMarcin ZarembaRyszard ZbronskiMarcin Zyczkowski
PortugalJosé Eduardo CarrasquinhoAndré Moreira Dos Santos SilvaLuis André Pinto Coelho Saraiva
QatarHecham Mohamed Mahir Abou Hashim
RomaniaAlin Adrian Cumpanas
Saudi ArabiaAbdulrahman Al AownAyman Ali Ibrahim AlbahtitiAyman Mahmoud AlbakriMohamad Kamal AlhalawanyAli AlhazmyJanan AlnajjarReshaid Abdullah Alreshaid
Ibrahim Abdullah AlshardiFuad AlshehabMohamed EltantawyMohamed Elsayed HabousMohammad Tarif Shaker KhalilHaroon Sabir KhanMahmoud Farouk Mahmoud AwadMuhammad Ejaz MunirSameer Abdulkhaliq Munshi
SingaporeColin Teo Chang Peng
SlovakiaMikhail Lozinskiy
SloveniaBorut GubinaTomaz Smrkolj
South AfricaDaniel Louw
SpainAna Agud PiqueMontserrat Arzoz FabregasJose Antonio Bellido PettiRoger Boix OrriJose Antonio March Villalba
SwedenFiras AbduljabbarBeata Maria Elisabet PerssonDagmar Dörte Schumacher
SwitzerlandAstrid BagotArnaud DoerflerMarkus FatzerJohannes Maximilian HauserAlexander MüllerChin Hu OngBeat RothBoris WeltzienPascal Zehnder
SyriaAmid Deyab
TurkeyKoray AgrasErsin CimentepeAlper EkenEsref Oguz GüvenYavuz Selim Sural
United Arab EmiratesSaad Michael Antowan
United KingdomWaleed Al-SingaryMohammed ElsaghirHashim HashimAbbas KhadraVivekanandan KumarSanjeeva Asvini Kumura MampitiyaShikohe Masood Samuel OsaghaeDavid PayneSyed RizviAdel Abdalla ShafikArun Kumar SharmaIoannis Tsiriopoulos
YemenFaiz Saleh Salim Bin BreakAbdulsalam Saleh
ANNOUNCEMENTFEBU Oral Examination 2010• 5June2010-Brussel
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